The Clifton clarion., 1887-08-10

of the 26th, just one day before the CLARION was published. Pin points may be sharp, but pin heads never. The article in the CLARION, which we trust MT. Editor, you will republish for the benefit of your readers, while not calculated to soothe like a balm of Gilead, fostering sores, is, nevertheless, written in a spirit or fairness, and moreover with strict adherance to the truth, as it is generally known and believed by outsiders. If Mir. Stevens has purchased the whole or any part of the CLARION I am unable to say, but however that may be, it is perfectly satis- factory to the people of Graham county by whom he is universally respected. Unfortunately this much cannot be said of his would be traducer, whom I find despised in his own home and execrated the country over.
 Yours respectfully,
 A CITIZEN OF GRAHAM. P. S.-You are at liberty to give my name to the little editor of the Star if he calls for 1t. A. c. ofG. 
 Clever Thieves In Disguise.
 My first job was perhaps the easiest I ever had, said bank rob- Der to a New York Sun reporter. That was nearly thirty years ago, and before bank officials were sus- plcious of everybody, and before the detective business had become a profession and an art. My work was laid out for me in Indianap- olis and we had plenty of funds and lots of time to develop 1t. Right beside bank was hat and cap store and we bought the stock for S700 and two of us entered in to business. We advertised largely, paid every bill promptly, and when we opened an account at the bank were cordially received. A part her in New York soon began send ing us slight drafts which were all o. K. and l took them into the bank and had no trouble, after the first one or two, Tn getting the cash. A notice somehow got into the papers that we were soon to build big store and add various lines of goods, and we presently found ourselves looked upon as A l among business men.
 No doubt we could have sprung the trap sooner than we did, but my policy always was to go slow and sure. As fast as we got the cash on draft we sent it back to come again, and they crept up in value from $50 to 5000. This had consumed weeks, but just pre- vious to this draft a notice ap- peared in the papers that we had bought site and an architect was preparing plans for a $30,000 building. A week later we were quite ready. One day at Il o'clock I put on my hat and walked into bank with a forged draft for S12,- 260 20. The cashier didn't hesi- tate ten seconds over it. Had I been a stranger, he probably would not have pai11 it, but I stood there and whistle1 and drummed on the counter while he counted out the money. l was going away when he called be back. My heart gave one great throb and then seemed to stand still, for I fully believed that he had detected something wrong. In the two or three sec onds given me I determined to ask him to retain the money on deposit until he heard from the draft, but as I turned about he smiled and inquired if our firm could not take on a friend of his when we got in to our new quarters. l replied ln the affirmative and walked out with the money in my hand. Half an hour later my partner and I Were leaving the city on a train, having left the hat store in charge of a boy, and neither of us has ever ventured back. The forgery came to light only when it was known that we had skipped, but I think the bank kept still about it. It was a new institution and felt afraid of having 1t known that it had been beaten. There were three of us in the job and we made over S3000 each in nine weeks time. Some have grown rich faster, but l T